PugJesus

"So, since might makes right in your ideology, you're going to admit that democracy and tolerance is the superior form of governance?"

"No, I'm actually just going to sulk here and spread Lost Cause style myths about how the Wehrmacht Wasn't That Bad(tm)"

Local manufacturing is politically advantageous and may employ some people at the same time, but that’s where benefits end.

There are legitimate strategic concerns with sourcing things long-term from potentially hostile states.

Europe should absolutely take advantage of current Chinese production to improve their own green energy efforts, but looking into local production in addition is not just a 'for-show' move. As sanctions on Russia show, dependence on markets that can potentially turn hostile can be very damaging.

Engage with communities here. The politics and tech communities are lively enough, but niche communities are lacking. Give people a reason to come here who aren't politics/tech junkies.

Going to new, or staying on hot?

Oh yeah, there were a whole bunch of issues early on. I'd completely forgotten about that particular incident. I think some of the instances had to wipe several weeks of their image caches over it. I forget what the exact solution was, but apparently there's some technical aspect to preventing such things that's been implemented now.

dbzer0 is kind of 'the' piracy instance. Run by an anarchist, a good egg, db0.

.world here is kind of the 'normie' instance, very left-wing by US standards, but centrist by European standards.

It was an utter disaster in those first few months. I stuck it out only out of sheer stubbornness in not going back to Reddit. Lemmy.world was always down, federation was borked, it was just not ready for the big-time. Just what happens when your userbase balloons 30x inside of a month. Now we're in a much better position to absorb new waves. The big thing is trying to get niche communities started on here - a bit of a arduous task. The mainstream communities are all pretty active at this point! And anything about Linux.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=48

65k Monthly Active Users (MAU) in July 2023, 33k by November 2023, 44k now.

Users about halved in the ~3 months after the initial exile. It's increased since then, but not yet to the point that it was at during the initial exodus.

Artists require an audience if they're going to share their work - otherwise we might as well just hang our works up on our fridge and be done with it.

Lemmy is a very small audience at present.

Honestly, it was never the popular kids who I had trouble with in school. They were mostly cordial fellows.

I don't think you really mean that, sweetheart. :)

"She's never stated" to "Well she doesn't REALLY mean it" lmao